Executing commands in batch mode via the CLI

In this recipe, we will learn how to invoke commands in the batch mode. Actually, you can declare and prepare a list of commands to execute, and execute them sequentially at once. The batch mode gives you consistency among your operations and configuration.

Getting ready

Get our WildFly instance up and running; from the folder where we downloaded the GitHub repository, WFC/github/wildfly-cookbook, copy the example.war and simple.war applications into the $JBOSS_HOME folder and connect to the CLI.

If you can find the applications, you probably need to compile the projects. I'll show you how to do it for the simple application, and the same applies to the others. Open a terminal and do as follows:

$ cd ~/WFC/github/wildfly-cookbook
$ cd simple
$ mvn -e clean package
   
$ cp target/simple.war ~/WFC/wildfly/

How to do it…

We are going to do the following operation in sequence:

1. Deploy example.war.
2. Deploy simple.war.
3. Let's go to the CLI:

   $ cd ~/WFC/wildfly
   $ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect
   [standalone@localhost:9990 /] batch
   [standalone@localhost:9990 / #] deploy example.war
   [standalone@localhost:9990 / #] deploy simple.war
   [standalone@localhost:9990 / #] run-batch
   The batch executed successfully
   [standalone@localhost:9990 /]

4. And the server.log logs the following:

   ...
   07:33:02,191 INFO  [org.jboss.as.repository] (management-handler-thread - 4) JBAS014900: Content added at location /home/lfugaro/wildfly/standalone/data/content/7a/a7c67cb54e0affa9d60cf98230e0c17efd1119/content
   07:33:02,205 INFO  [org.jboss.as.repository] (management-handler-thread - 4) JBAS014900: Content added at location /home/lfugaro/wildfly/standalone/data/content/e0/2abb62b1b29f97f532ef1501910d64af194b21/content
   07:33:02,227 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "simple.war" (runtime-name: "simple.war")
   07:33:02,227 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-7) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "example.war" (runtime-name: "example.war")
   07:33:02,689 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS017534: Registered web context: /simple
   07:33:02,689 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS017534: Registered web context: /example
   07:33:02,746 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (management-handler-thread - 4) JBAS018559: Deployed "simple.war" (runtime-name : "simple.war")
   07:33:02,746 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (management-handler-thread - 4) JBAS018559: Deployed "example.war" (runtime-name : "example.war")